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In trying to come up with a deck to take to FNM a few weeks ago, and in subsequently contemplating the weird makeup of Standard nowadays, I decided to build my own Standard-legal deck. This is my first foray into the deep sea of Standard and also into the world of competitive deck building, as I am a casual player (and all-around Johnny/Timmy) at heart. I didn’t want to “sell out” and make a Jund deck and I didn’t want to play elves because that’s pretty easy. I wanted a good mainstream deck that had a good amount of disruption and a good amount of beats. How about both on one card?

Alright time to explain some choices. We start with the mana base. The two Worldwake manlands are in there for late-game mana sinks. If I just have a bunch of mana and almost nothing to do with it, why not crash in with a 3/2 unblockable creature or a creature that I can pump to the extent of my mana? These things come in mighty handy, though I will have to watch out for Lightning Bolt

s, but it’s a risk I’m willing to take. Every nonbasic land in the deck produces something else and a black. This is so I can make sure that I have exactly the colors I need to cast my Ultimatum or a Gatekeeper of Malakir

. These have turned out to be incredibly helpful in getting the quick jump on my opponent. When the Remnant comes out, if I cascade into a specter of the Hypnotic or Sedraxis variety, I can get a serious tempo advantage. Even a Blightning

nabbing an early spell of some sort. The sideboard is spread like that because I’ve never played FNM at this store before so I’m trying to cover most of the bases. Critique it if you want, but I consider it at least borderline effective.

This is the deck. The average mana cost is 2.56 so I consider that to be pretty good. I feel that it can run with some of the Jund decks out there and with further testing that could prove to be a fact. All I know for sure is that the deck’s a blast to play and it can do some serious damage. Any feedback is good and it can be given in the post of this article on the forums. I hoped you enjoyed reading this and if you did, look forward to me writing more in the future. Good night and good luck.

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